Hunyyn Monocular, Phone Pics, Effects

This 12×42 Hunyyn monocular was a gift from my high tech nerdy son up in the wilds of Portland, Oregon.

Here’s the whole rig. Flip-up and detachable front lens cap, bag, nice little tripod came with it.

But I couldn’t find a usable tripod socket on the body. [Update: found the instructions, tripod socket is on the body is under the silver cover on the lower side.]

Rigging it was fiddly and not very secure. I don’t know how I’d use the tripod socket on the thin plastic mount and not on the monocular body. [See above, socket located under silver cover.]

Twenty-two power is beyond my ability to keep steady so the picture bounces excessively. Not usable for video for that reason.

Strong lens pincushion distortion and vignetting.

I thought to take some bird shots with it so I took it in the back yard.

Minimum focal distance is about 30 ft so it’s restricted to longer distances.

Long lens means shallow depth of field. Cheap lens means distortion, center only is in focus, general lack of sharpness and contrast.

Lining up the phone camera lens with the mounting hole was difficult and a bit shaky.

I’m not sure how I’d get it to show full frame, or if that’s possible.

Tightly cropped here to eliminate vignetting. Soft focus more noticeable cropped in.

But I found the long focal length, soft focus, vignetting, and pincushion distortion to be charmingly retro.

Especially when put through a B&W effects filter.

Punching up the saturation also gives a pastel old timey glow.

The far minimum focus and soft lens mean it is unsuitable for birb jpgs so I’ll probably donate it on to my neighbor’s grandkid.

But this was fun. So thanks, ‘Tommy’, up in the tall fog and smug. And Javier thanks you too.

This was a big red inflatable exercise ball accidentally lined up with a metal grid lawn chair in the sun. Not a composite photograph.

This version with color.

[Update: I just walked the monocular up to my gadget loving neighbor pal. Then back home I found the instructions, the soft lens bag, rear lens cover and the box, have to give him those too when I see him next.]

[I kept the cute little tripod and clamp phone holder, with tripod sockets on both vertical and horizontal axis- pretty handy. I’ll try videoing my blues piccolo bass riffs again with it using my new phone’s camera, see if I’ve gotten any better in several years playing. Or not.]

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